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Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect

By *Brené Brown,* Special to CNN

Let go of your prerequisites for worthiness and accept that you worthy of

love, says expert.

*Editor's note: Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of

Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent 10 years studying

vulnerability, shame, authenticity and courage. She is the author of " The

Gifts of

Imperfection " <http://www.amazon.com/Gifts-Imperfection-Think-Supposed-Embrace/dp\

/159285849X>(Hazelden)

and has a

blog <http://www.ordinarycourage.com/> on courage. *

*(CNN)* -- The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting, but as

hard as we try, we can't turn off the tapes that fill our heads with

messages like " Never good enough " and " What will people think? "

Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us

spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to

everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No -- the truth is that

we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love

authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.

We get sucked into perfection for one very simple reason: We believe

perfection will protect us. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live

perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain

of blame, judgment, and shame.

We all need to feel worthy of love and belonging, and our worthiness is on

the line when we feel like we are never ___ enough (you can fill in the

blank: thin, beautiful, smart, extraordinary, talented, popular, promoted,

admired, accomplished).

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best.

Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.

Perfectionism is a 20-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will

protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from

being seen and taking flight.

Living in a society that floods us with unattainable expectations around

every topic imaginable, from how much we should weigh to how many times a

week we should be having sex, putting down the perfection shield is scary.

Finding the courage, compassion and connection to move from " What will

people think? " to " I am enough, " is not easy. But however afraid we are of

change, the question that we must ultimately answer is this:

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think -- or letting go

of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

So, how do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we

need to embrace our imperfections and to recognize that we are enough --

that we are worthy of love, belonging, and joy? Why we're all so afraid to

let our true selves be seen and known. Why are we so paralyzed by what

other people think? After studying vulnerability, shame, and authenticity

for the past decade, here's what I've learned.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We

are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love,

to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function

as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt

others. We get sick.

There are certainly other causes of illness, numbing, and hurt, but the

absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.

As I conducted my research

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I realized

that only one thing separated the men and women who

felt a deep sense of love and belonging from the people who seem to be

struggling for it. That one thing is the belief in their worthiness. It's

as simple and complicated as this:

If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we

are worthy of love and belonging.

The greatest challenge for most of us is believing that we are worthy now,

right this minute. Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.

So many of us have created a long list of worthiness prerequisites:

• I'll be worthy when I lose 20 pounds

• I'll be worthy if I can get pregnant

• I'll be worthy if I get/stay sober

• I'll be worthy if everyone thinks I'm a good parent

• I'll be worthy if I can hold my marriage together

• I'll be worthy when I make partner

• I'll be worthy when my parents finally approve

• I'll be worthy when I can do it all and look like I'm not even trying

Here's what is truly at the heart of whole-heartedness: Worthy now. Not if.

Not when. We are worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

Letting go of our prerequisites for worthiness means making the long walk

from " What will people think? " to " I am enough. " But, like all great

journeys, this walk starts with one step, and the first step in the

Wholehearted journey is practicing courage.

The root of the word courage is cor -- the Latin word for heart. In one of

its earliest forms, the word courage had a very different definition than

it does today. Courage originally meant to speak one's mind by telling all

one's heart.

Over time, this definition has changed, and, today, courage is more

synonymous with being heroic. Heroics are important and we certainly need

heroes, but I think we've lost touch with the idea that speaking honestly

and openly about who we are, about what we're feeling, and about our

experiences (good and bad) is the definition of courage.

Heroics are often about putting our life on the line. Courage is about

putting our vulnerability on the line. If we want to live and love with our

whole hearts and engage in the world from a place of worthiness, our first

step is practicing the courage it takes to own our stories and tell the

truth about who we are. It doesn't get braver than that.

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Many years ago, when I was a naïve and gullible teenager, I read about a

home treatment for constipation that involved rolling a bowling ball around

on the abdomen. I was intrigued, thought it sounded reasonable, and might

even have tried it myself if I had been constipated or had had a bowling

ball to experiment with. Many decades later, with the advantages of a

medical education and experience in science-based medicine and critical

thinking, I encountered a treatment that reminded me of the bowling ball:

visceral manipulation (VM), a practice developed by a French osteopath and

physical therapist, Jean-Pierre Barral. This time I was far more skeptical.

VM may be more sophisticated than a bowling ball, but its effectiveness and

safety are equally dubious.

Visceral manipulation (VM) will probably be unfamiliar to most of my

readers, but its promoters say it has been adopted by osteopathic

physicians, “allopathic” physicians, doctors of chiropractic, doctors of

Oriental medicine, naturopathic physicians, physical therapists,

occupational therapists, massage therapists and other licensed body

workers. Its origin follows the path of many other alternative health

systems. Like chiropractic, ear acupuncture, iridology, EMDR, and others,

it was developed by one individual based on his personal observations and

experiences without any kind of proper testing. Like the others, it started

with a single patient: in Ignaz von Peczely’s case an owl with a spot on

its iris, in D.D. Palmer’s case a janitor whose hearing allegedly improved

after something was done to his back, in Barral’s case a patient who said

he had felt relief from his back pain after going to an “old man who pushed

something in his abdomen.” From a single case they extrapolated to a

general belief about disease causation and a whole diagnostic and/or

treatment system.

*How is VM Done?*

A video <

Barral

demonstrating his skills. He “listens with his hands” to detect tension

(elsewhere the perception is designated as a thermal phenomenon). His

diagnostic process begins by “listening with the hands” on the top of the

patient’s head to determine the lateralization or general area of the

problem. Then his hands “listen” to the areas of concern to further

localize the problem. In this demonstration he detects something in the

stomach which he says could be from decreased acidity or emotional tension.

Then he listens to the skull repeatedly with both hands, does something

simultaneously to the neck and abdomen, and finally he is satisfied that

his hands are telling him that he has corrected the problem.

*The Underlying Rationale*

From the Barral Institute

website<http://www.barralinstitute.com/articles/docs/stlwj_the_messages_of_your_\

body.pdf>

:

Therapists using Visceral Manipulation assess the dynamic functional

actions as well as the somatic structures that perform individual

activities. They also evaluate the quality of the somatic structures and

their functions in relation to an overall harmonious pattern, with motion

serving as the gauge for determining quality.

The visceral system relies on the interconnected synchronicity between the

motions of all the organs and other structures of the body. At optimal

health, this harmonious relationship remains stable despite the body’s

endless varieties of motion. But when one organ cannot move in harmony with

its surrounding viscera due to abnormal tone, adhesions or displacement, it

works against the body’s other organs, as well as muscular, membranous,

fascial and osseous structures. This disharmony creates fixed, abnormal

points of tension that the body is forced to move around. In turn, that

chronic irritation paves the way for disease and dysfunction throughout

many systems of the body – musculoskeletal, vascular, nervous, urinary,

respiratory and digestive to name a few.

Barral says the organs remember physical and emotional traumas, and *each

organ is connected to specific emotions (!)*. He says “structural

relationships” (peripheral, spinal, cranial) can self-correct after VM. He

says that each internal organ rotates on a physiological axis. He says

organ problems profoundly affect the spine.

Each organ has a regular intrinsic oscillatory motion that follows lines of

embryologic migration. This motion resembles, but is distinct from, the

craniosacral rhythm [a delusion accepted only by craniosacral

practitioners]… If the kidneys are moving out of phase, with one moving

inferiorly while the other moves superiorly, this side bends the spine

every 3.9 seconds. This small motion is like water drop torture for the

spine, resulting in a repetitive motion injury.

Strains in the connective tissue of the viscera can result from surgical

scars, adhesions, illness, posture or injury. Tension patterns form through

the fascial network deep within the body, creating a cascade of effects far

from their sources for which the body will have to compensate. This creates

fixed, abnormal points of tension that the body must move around, and this

chronic irritation gives way to functional and structural problems.

*Where’s the Evidence?*

This is fantasy, not science. Adhesions do exist and certainly can cause

problems, especially after surgery, but Barral claims they are widespread.

For instance, he says they form around the heart in whiplash neck injuries.

There is no evidence that they are responsible for symptoms of all the

conditions Barral claims or are even present in those conditions, or that

disrupting them improves health. And there is no evidence that Barral is

actually disrupting adhesions and no reason to think that gentle

manipulations like his could possibly do so.

The Barral Institute website claims

that<http://www.barralinstitute.com/about/vm.php>“Comparative Studies

found Visceral Manipulation Beneficial for Various

Disorders” including a long list of everything from whiplash to PTSD, from

menopause to urinary reflux; but I have been unable to locate any such

studies.

I won’t even attempt any evaluation of the literature, because there’s

nothing worth evaluating. The extensive bibliography provided on the

website is not helpful. It provides links to popular articles by Barral, to

published studies that are not pertinent to VM, and to a few uncontrolled

pilot studies and case reports where the clinical significance of the

reported changes is uncertain or where any observed improvement can’t be

attributed to VM itself. The bibliography reveals that VM has suspicious

bedfellows: it is related to energy medicine, craniosacral therapy, zero

balancing, Upledger’s bizzare

ideas,<http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/cranial2.html>neurodeve\

lopmental

therapies, and other dubious concepts.

*Is It Safe?*

I think we can reasonably assume that any abdominal manipulation sufficient

to disrupt adhesions would risk tissue damage and internal bleeding, but VM

is not likely to do that. As practiced, VM amounts to relaxation,

suggestion, and gentle massage; so it is not likely to cause physical harm

unless it replaces other, effective treatments. It’s more likely to cause

harm to the wallet and to critical thinking.

*The APTA Goes Astray*

The American Physical Therapy Association is trying to establish evidence-based

clinical practice

guidelines.<http://www.jospt.org/issues/id.1407/article_detail.asp>

The

Women’s Health Section features a prominent

link<http://www.womenshealthapta.org/index.cfm>to CME courses on

visceral manipulation offered by the Barral Institute.

J.W. Matheson, a physical therapist in private practice and a long-time

APTA member, wrote the organization to protest their promotion of

pseudoscience. He provided supporting documents and said,

Visceral Manipulation is a pseudo-scientific practice that belongs outside

of the field of physical therapy. The practice of visceral manipulation is

not consistent with the vision and mission statements of the APTA.

Schwoerer, the Director of Education, replied with an astonishing

letter. Here are some of her more alarming statements:

Our course offerings are based on the model of evidence informed practice,

which Sackett defined as balancing clinical research with clinical

experience and patient values. Some of our course offerings… were… based on

extensive review of the literature and are clearly advertised as evidence

based.

Other aspects of physical therapy practice reflect the clinical experience

of the physical therapist providing care and the values, which the patient

views as critical to their healing process… some of these techniques have

not been validated by the more rigorous clinical research protocol because

we have yet to develop measurement tools that could undergo appropriate

testing… Adhering to clinical research as the only valid evidence is a

disservice to patients who have responded time and again in case studies to

so-called “pseudoscientific” interventions and threatens to undermine

future innovation in the field.

The Board of Directors… embrace the instruction of visceral mobilization

under the tenets of clinical experience and patient values. We disagree

that this is pseudoscientific in nature but also recognize that clinical

trials do not support its use and therefore do not advertise as evidence

based. If individuals are not comfortable with the level of evidence

supporting this coursework, there is no obligation to take it for any of

the SoWH certificates or to sit for the WCS.

In other words, “We don’t need no stinkin’ science! We support any

treatment that can provide positive anecdotes. We believe the plural of

anecdote is data. Instead of offering guidance, we’ll let our members sink

or swim: we’ll make them responsible for knowing ahead of time how much

evidence supports a treatment and deciding whether they believe it is

sufficient to merit a personal decision to study it.”

This is beneath contempt. I don’t think I need to elaborate. Another

formerly respected organization has drunk the CAM Kool-Aid.

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When Dr. Malia of Fairport, New York, runs behind schedule, he

passes out five-dollar bills to everyone in the waiting room. And when Dr.

Cyrus Peikari of Dallas, Texas canceled his appointments for a family

emergency, he gave each patient 50 bucks for the inconvenience.

Most doctors apologize. Few offer cash. Others get creative: Dr. Gwen

Hanson of Bellevue, Washington gives out Starbucks cards; Dr. Sharon McCoy

of Irvine, California, doles out movie passes; and I award gifts

from a giant wicker basket by the door.

As America inches toward patient-centered care, some doctors are leading

the way.

I transitioned from assembly-line to patient-centered medicine in 2004 when

I invited citizens in Lane County, Oregon, to design their own clinic. I

led town hall meetings, collected 100 pages of testimony, adopted 90% of

the community’s feedback, and opened one month later. Our community clinic

is thriving. But I’m always looking for new ideas.

*Who is accountable for wait time?*

Then my friend Elaine disclosed, “If I’m kept waiting, I bill the doctor.

At the 20-minute mark, I politely tell the receptionist that the doctor has

missed my appointment and at the 30-minute mark I will start billing at

$47.00 per hour.” More often than not, she gets paid.

I reported her story <

on my

YouTube news channel where it was picked up by CNN and over 11,000 other

media outlets. Ultimately, Elaine’s waiting room remedy became the lead

segment for a “Patients’ Bill of Rights” series on ABC World News.

Why all the fuss? Patients, frustrated by excessive waiting, have had no

immediate recourse. Until now.

Amid the media frenzy, I met up with a patient named Pam. She billed two

chiropractors and a neurosurgeon. The neurosurgeon waived her balance; both

chiropractors paid up. One offered a bottle of wine from his private

collection and promised prompt service upon arrival for future appointments

— ahead of scheduled patients — because, he said, “*those* people don’t

mind waiting.”

Comments from news stories confirm Elaine and Pam aren’t unique.

Raitt, a retired pharmacologist, writes:

“Hurrah: I began to do that in 1968 when I had to take my infant daughter

to a dermatologist. I called early, told the person who answered that my

daughter had diaper rash and how I was treating her. We arrived at the

office 15 minutes early, waited more than three hours, and when the doctor

finally made her presence known she told me that my daughter had diaper

rash, and wrote a prescription for the medication I had told them I was

using. When I went home, I immediately invoiced the doctor for $75.00,

ignored her bill, and compounded interest monthly. When my bill to her

exceeded $100.00 I started action in small claims court. She paid me, and

ever since I have always told doctors what I would do if kept waiting more

than 15 minutes. Other than in cases of emergency, I have never been kept

waiting.[1<http://www.jopm.org/perspective/narratives/2012/01/11/waiting-room-re\

medy-doctor-pays-for-delays-the-doctor%E2%80%99s-perspective/#footnote_1>

]”

*From anger to empathy*

We’ve all waited for the doctor. But why so long? Here’s the not-so-simple

answer:

Physicians cannot set, charge, or receive proper payment because government

and insurance companies control reimbursement. In other words, there’s no

free market for physicians who accept insurance. By boosting the volume of

patients seen, they buffer the loss from low reimbursement, resulting in

production-driven practices that pack up to five exam rooms per doctor to

cover ever-increasing overhead.

When physicians enter the exam room, they have no idea what multitude or

complexity of problems they’ll encounter, nor the insurance hassles,

paperwork, and phone calls they must endure to adequately care for the

patient.

Patients believe doctors are insulated from economic distress. Yet with

high medical school debt, low reimbursement, and 24/7 call duty, some

physicians earn less than minimum wage. I know doctors who can’t afford

their own health insurance; fortunately, their kids meet federal poverty

guidelines and are enrolled in Medicaid. Recently, a physician friend

confided she’s defaulting on her student loans.

For the promise of loan repayment, some doctors take government jobs with

no control over their schedules. Myria Emeny, MD wrote in an email (June

2011): “When I worked for the community health center it was mandatory that

a patient be put in every 15 minutes — didn’t matter if they needed an

interpreter or were elderly and very sick or disabled and needed extra

explanations — didn’t matter. Patients waited for me two or more hours … I

worked through lunch and continued past the time my nurse left.” After

years of self-neglect from working inhumane schedules, doctors burn out.

*Doctors taking responsibility: Victims no more*

In our automated and alienated medical system, both patients and doctors

feel dehumanized and commoditized. Will invoicing doctors solve the problem?

While it’s easy to blame doctors, patients bear some responsibility. One

person writes: “Wait time too long? Leave. Can’t leave? Then stay. Your

doctor is running late but can’t bend time. And frankly, if you show up for

an appointment still fat, smoking, and not taking your meds, then you’re

wasting their time, and everyone else’s time in the waiting room. Maybe

they should send you a bill.”

In fact, the underlying issue is: We all must be responsible for our

actions — and inactions. A patient named Colin challenges, “I have negative

hope that lawyers and politicians in DC have the capacity to fix any one of

the thousand problems with health care if physicians cannot come to a

consensus on a ‘simple’ issue of should physicians bear responsibility for

running late.”

One physician admits, “At my old job I was routinely scheduled to have

three patients in the 8:30 am time slot. There’s no way I could finish

seeing all those people before the next three scheduled in the 8:45 am time

slot.” A patient contends, “The fact that you have to see [12] people an

hour because the insurance companies are screwing you doesn’t change that

fact that long waits waste *our* time.” The truth is: when both patient and

physician sign contracts with insurers, both carry equal responsibility.

But physicians are more capable of fixing long waits than patients. As the

business owner (or employee agreeing to work for a group), physicians

consent to the creation of this situation and should be challenged to take

responsibility for it.

Dr. Malia took control of his medical practice by lowering volume

and working a humane schedule. He says, “I do what I can in the part of the

world I have some control over, most often just the 10 feet around me.”

Imagine if we all did the same.

*Informed scheduling*

One solution: Offices must clearly inform patients what to expect

*before*they arrive for an appointment. With open-hours scheduling,

patients sign

in and are treated on a first-come, first-served basis. With wave

scheduling, patients are booked at the top of the hour and seen in order of

arrival. Most common is stream scheduling — assigning one time slot per

person, with overbooking for same-day appointments.

Uninformed patients are often in for unpleasant surprises. After a long

wait, one patient confides, “I started asking people what time their

appointment was for and it turned out there were four of us with the same

appointment time. I switched doctors.”

While informed scheduling may seem to be a simple fix, it’s also a threat

to standard operations, as many practices maximize efficiency and benefit

financially by having people wait for free.

*Just a little respect between doctors and patients*

Most physicians are compassionate and caring. But one woman recalls waiting

in the exam room for almost two hours while her doctor was “calling all his

friends on the phone and telling them about his fabulous Florida deep-sea

fishing trip”

It’s basic: mutual respect is a prerequisite for a healing relationship.

José, a physician, shares a personal anecdote. Pulled over by a police

officer on the way to the doctor’s office, José’s uncle was five minutes

late for his appointment. The administrator told him it didn’t matter why

he was late and to expect a bill for not showing up on time or canceling

within 24 hours. He rescheduled for the following day and waited two hours

in the exam room for the doctor. No apologies were made. José summarizes,

“This lack of respect is what gives many of us a bad name, making patients

feel like we think we are superior to them and think that our time is more

valuable than theirs, alienating us from our patients.”

Doctors have hundreds of reasons why they run behind and claim it’s never

due to lack of respect for patients. Yet many offices charge patients late,

no-show, or cancel fees, while physicians miss appointments with no

reciprocal financial obligation to patients. The assumption: patients don’t

have as legitimate a reason for tardiness or missing appointments as

physicians.

*From paternalism to partnership*

Some believe waiting for doctors is a fact of life. Not so. Whether

physician or patient, here are five ways to avoid delays at the doctor’s

office:

1. Schedule smartly. While physicians should select the scheduling

method that works best for their workflow, patients should be offered

informed consent when it comes to scheduling. Choose offices that allow

reasonable time intervals for appointments.

2. Communicate clearly. Whether by mouth, text, or tweet, clinics must

inform patients of delays. And patients should state the real reason for

their appointment at the beginning of the visit.

3. Practice mutual respect. Patients: be on time, on task, and compliant

with agreed upon treatment plans from previous visits to prevent schedule

delays for other patients.

4. End the double standard. If offices charge patients no-show,

cancelation, or late fees, patients have a right to invoice doctors who

miss their appointments.

5. Vote with your feet. Physicians and patients have choices. Dislike

how you are treated at a medical clinic? Find another clinic. Fed up with

insurance? Bypass third parties with cash. All across America, doctors are

using their energy, creativity, and love of medicine to create medical

sanctuaries for patients. Celebrate what works.

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Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Warren to close March 31 Health system says

it wants to reopen building as rehabilitation center

Published On: Jan 17 2012 11:46:36 AM EST

Health System announced Tuesday that it will close its Warren hospital on

March 31 with the intent to convert the facility, with a partner, into a

Midwest destination site for advanced inpatient and outpatient

rehabilitation services.

HFHS said it was pursuing plans to work with a nationally recognized

organization in this specialty and that a request for proposal will be

issued to rehabilitation organizations next month.

The new rehabilitation center could open within the next year to 18 months

at the Warren hospital.

The health system said that although it had remained financially strong,

the Warren hospital had lost more than $70 million over the last five

years. Market share during this period has been between 4 and 6 percent,

with inpatient occupancy rates consistently averaging below 50 percent at

the 203-bed hospital.

Return on investment has been negatively impacted by the economic climate

in southeast Michigan, declining reimbursement and uncompensated care. The

decision was also based on the availability of other hospitals in the

market area, and Henry Ford Health System’s commitment to both financial

stewardship and appropriate patient access throughout southeast Michigan.

Recognizing the impact the decision will have on patients, community

members, employees and physicians, Henry Ford Health System will:

- Notify existing and former patients of the availability of health

resources within the System and community, of medical records access and of

care transition plans.

-

Place as many of the approximately 700 full- and part-time hospital

employees into open positions within Henry Ford Health System facilities,

and provide financial and job placement support to those not reassigned.

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Continue to offer a wide range of primary care, specialty and community

outreach services in the Warren area through our physician offices and

medical centers.

- Encourage patients and others in the community who have questions or

comments to visit HenryFordMacomb.com/WarrenPatients, or call

.

“Henry Ford is committed to transferring as many affected employees as

possible into open positions,” says Bob Riney, president and COO of Henry

Ford Health System. “Hiring external candidates has been put on hold, and

the Warren staff will be given top priority for transferring into the 800+

open positions within Henry Ford. We expect to successfully place the

majority of our employees.”

Henry Ford Macomb Hospital – Warren opened in 1966 as Bi-County Community

Hospital.

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